First off, a big welcome to James D. Best to my group of followers. BUY MR. BEST'S BOOKS TODAY at Amazon.com, a fine writer of Westerns and Mysteries and an all-around nice guy. You can visit his blog and order books from there jamesdbest.com . Read his latest blog post about his stay at a dude ranch, interesting.
Second off, if you are not in Phoenix this weekend you will miss the racing at Phoenix International Raceway with all the NASCAR drivers, including Jimmie Johnson, Michael Waltrip, Greg Biffle, the Cope Twins, and many others. It's a sellout crowd, tickets are still available for the hillside, though. Good luck and don't have too many accidents, just one or two spectacular crashes to keep the crowd excited on the way to the track. I will not be there this year or next year or the year after that, nor did I go last year, the year before, the year before that, etc.
Third off, other things that are coming up:
1. The Arizona Wind Symphony, Nov 2, DARN, you'll have to wait 'til next year. It was a real windy blast this year, a regular "haboob" without the dust, just the wind whistling through the cactus and creosote bushes. Just joking. This is an 80-member concert band that put on a Latin Music Extravaganza this year in the Tempe Arts Center.
2. The Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival, Nov 12-13, The fiddle-on-fire-that-turns-the-grass-blue event 30 miles NW of Phoenix with some of the best fiddlers around.
3. 2012 Trappings of the American West, Prescott, AZ. Ninety artists from the West painting, bronzing, photographing things Western, Nov 12. Don't stand still or they will take your picture and paint a portrait and sculpt something in bronze about it, a record forever sacred in stone, er, that was bronze, I think.
And so forth, and so forth, and...... the beat goes on. So much to do, so little time.
(Thanks to the AAA mag Highroads again.)
I'd like to see that Trappings from the American West. Sounds great.
ReplyDeleteCharles, so would I. Maybe next year.
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